New detail in Dominion’s case against Fox News

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Internal documents from Fox News show that the organization’s fact checkers circulated information knocking down conspiracy theories about election fraud and Dominion’s voting systems. Meanwhile, former President Trump is appealing a judge’s order for White House aides like former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to testify about January 6th. Geoff Bennett, Carol Leonnig, Glenn Kirschner, Rep. David Cicilline, Symone Sanders Townsend, Christopher Shays, and Rep. Ilana Rubel join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, never before seen evidence in Dominion's lawsuit against Fox News.
0:06.5	The network's so-called brainroom found no evidence of fraud, but hosts continued to push
0:12.7	the conspiracy theories on air, as top leadership called back-checking bad for business.
0:18.8	Then Democrats holding Republicans feet to the fire over gun safety legislation demanding
0:25.0	a vote they brought to the floor.
0:27.0	Congressman Dave Sicilini joins me live.
0:29.8	And a new Republican led Bill in Idaho would make abortion access a whole lot harder in
0:36.0	a first of its kind trafficking law, as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night.
0:42.8	Good evening, once again, I'm Stephanie Rooled Live from Washington, D.C. newly revealed
0:50.8	evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on Fox News.
0:54.5	The network is facing a 1.6 billion-with-a-b dollar defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems.
1:01.6	NBC has obtained several slides of internal Fox communications used by Dominion lawyers
1:07.3	in pretrial hearings.
1:09.3	Fox had tried to keep the secret, but a judge released them.
1:12.9	They show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy theories about Dominion
1:19.0	and the 2020 election, even after Fox's fact checkers in what it calls the brain room
1:25.3	said they were not true.
1:27.0	One fact check from November 13, 2020 says this, quote, claims about Dominion switching
1:32.8	or deleting votes are 100% false.
1:37.1	Another reads, the facts, there's no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020 election.
1:43.3	By the way, if you're looking at your screen, that right there that was highlighted in
1:47.7	yellow, that was done in the court document, not by NBC News.
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